On 12/4, Kudos competed in the 2nd quarter of SCJFL Debate tournament.

Starting with congressional debate, a big congratulations to Larry Zhou as a preliminary round Presiding Officer and to Anne Liu as the final round Presiding Officer! For overall placements: Serena Guo placed 20th, Zoey Luc placed 17th, Andy Hou placed 14th, Edwin Jiao placed 9th, Ayden Fang placed 8th, Micah Yeung placed 7th, Michelle Zhang placed 6th, Linda Jiang placed 5th, Juliana Cui placed 4th, Evelyn Lam placed 3rd, and Anne Liu placed 1st! Congratulations to our congress team!

For Lincoln-Douglas debate, the students discussed the right to strike. Their efforts paid off as three students made it to the final set of break rounds! Yanzi Fang, Sophia Ren, and Pearl Hsieh all advanced to round 6 with Pearl placing 8th, Sophia placing 7th, and Yanzi placing 6th overall. In addition, Yanzi went undefeated in her preliminary rounds! Congratulations to the LD team!

And last, but certainly not least, our Public Forum team. This month they tackled the extremely complex world of cryptocurrency and federal regulations. Two teams advanced to the Semi-final round with one moving on into the final! In the top 10 team placements at the tournament, Harry Chen and Kaiden Wong placed 9th, Belle Huang and Celina Zhou (Semi-Finalists) placing 5th, and Claire Liu and Joyce Zhang (Finalists) placing 2nd! In addition, Claire Liu received 10th place overall speaker!
Huge congratulations to our semi-finalists and finalists as well as every PF debate team.

With two tournaments down and a semester over, these debaters are well on their way to becoming debate veterans! We encourage every debater to get in their rest over the course of this winter break. Great work at this tournament and have a Happy Holidays!

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